Ketch Secor of the energetic American roots band Old Crow Medicine Show and a few of his talented friends streamed a concert from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry this past weekend. In eloquent music parlance, they killed it. One song, “Wagon Wheel,” though overplayed and over covered — Darius Rucker remade it —...
What if North Carolina doesn’t end up getting as much federal relief as expected for state and local government? What if it has lots of strings attached?
Disruption linked to the coronavirus pandemic prompts new thinking about the way we teach our children.
In addition to being immoral, discrimination is foolishly self-destructive. It keeps companies from hiring the best people and serving the most customers. It throttles innovation. It makes us poorer.
A save-the-system-not-the-student mentality is at the center of the “left-leaning” N.C. Association of Educators’ lawsuit to thrust a dagger into the heart of our state’s school choice options. “Vouchers for private schools are an affront to a state that has a long and cherished history of public education,” the NCAE posted to Twitter. Those “vouchers,” which the union...
